<http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63000,00.html> titled "OS X Trojan Horse Is a Nag "
In short, no real virus yet exists. Also, I talked to one of the other mac folks here on campus, and he was neither impressed with the problem or surprised at its mechanism, he confirmed what I thought...the ability to do this has been in the OS since the beginning, and is nothing really new.
There's no mechanism for this to easily spread itself, since any code that could use the system to propagate itself will require an administrative password.
This does not infect other files and it seems, though they're not talking, that Intego actually based all of this on the proof-of-concept file that was discussed on usenet back in March.
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